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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
iron may doctrine
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. Charles Spurgeon
iron grace affliction
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
iron feet games
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. Chris Avellone
ironic indifferent hesitation
You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations. Bruno Latour
irony humans built
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Catherynne M. Valente
iron-will earth trout
Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth. Kurt Vonnegut
iron fire water
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
iron feelings pumps
The most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Arnold Schwarzenegger
iron discipline creative
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive. Bertrand Russell
alliances revolutionary oppressed
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. David Graeber
alliances conquer hoping-for-the-best
Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself. Ashleigh Brilliant
alliances definitions firsts
The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations. Chuck Hagel
alliances agility problem
Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
alliances would-be kabul
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. Geoff Hoon
alliances protection recess
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact. Francois Mauriac
alliances difficulty
The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. Eric Rohmer
alliances disease kind
Fine,” Kyle said. “I’m a werewolf. I’m not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. Have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?” “I’ve heard of lupus,” said Simon. “Isn’t it a kind of disease? Cassandra Clare
alliances ifs
You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone. George W. Bush